Thursday, March 28, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Gavin Douglas

« All quotes from this author
 

And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray:
Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day.
--
Bk. 12, prologue, line 251.

 
Gavin Douglas

» Gavin Douglas - all quotes »



Tags: Gavin Douglas Quotes, Authors starting by D


Similar quotes

 

I wear a lot of Axe body spray, but I live in a black neighborhood. Over there, they call it Ask body spray. If you don't get that joke, then you're not racist.

 
Zach Galifianakis
 

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

 
Patrick Henry
 

I observe you have thought proper to insert the last number of the Philosophical Magazine your opinion that my attempts at the safety tubes and apertures were borrowed from what I have heard of Sir Humphrey Davy's researches. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. The plan of such a lamp was seen by several and the lamp itself was in the hands of the manufacturers during the time he was here.

 
George Stephenson
 

At Pottery Barn, if you knock over a lamp, you have to glue it back together, even if when you're done it looks terrible and it doesn't work. Oh, and you have to stay in the store forever. Oh, and it's an exploding lamp.

 
Stephen Colbert
 

The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.

 
Thomas Guthrie
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact